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Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea: ... with celebrated voyages, amusing tales ... and ... anecdotes. Illustrated with ... engravings ... Edited by J. L. No. 1-59

LINDRIDGE, James. · 1846 · 153 pictures

A serialised nineteenth-century anthology of shipwreck narratives, voyages and sea anecdotes, edited by James Lindridge and issued in fifty-nine numbers in London from 1846 for a popular reading public. The wood engravings set dismasted ships, breaking waves and small boats against open sky, captioned with vessel, captain and date; useful for rigging silhouettes, wave and cloud hatching, and disaster vignettes.

British Library · HMNTS 1424.i.10. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)